Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.

There is also this benefit in brag: that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.

Science is the outcome of being prepared to live without certainty and therefore a mark of maturity. It embraces doubt and loose ends.

Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose

The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.

What goes up must come down.

You never know when a moment and afew sincere words can have an impact on a life.

He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise.

A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.

We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.

The future starts today, not tomorrow.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

We were all at once terribly alone; and alone we must see it through.

During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.